Justine Johnston Hemmestad
THE BOOKS
I have ten books on Amazon.com and one on Lulu at http://www.lulu.com/shop/macabre-maine/me-haunted-love/paperback/product-22612408.html .
Truth be Told
ISBN-13: 978-0692627686
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IMy intention was to write this story in the same vein as C.S. Lewis, heavily laden with symbolism that represents my recovery from a brain injury sustained in my 1990 car accident. The lead characters symbolize different aspects of the stages of my recovery. As Virginia Woolf said, "The normal and comfortable state of being is that when the two [sides of the brain] live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating. If one is a man, still the woman part of his brain must have effect... Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous." The format of writing about recovery in more than one person also came to me from Aristophanes' speech in Plato's Symposium, as well as a theory that Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights) may have not only modeled Catherine on herself, but Heathcliff as well.
NonBinary Review #9 A Study in Scarlet
by Various
Edited by Allie Marini and Lise Quintana
Issue 9 begins with Arthur Conan Doyle's classic A Study in Scarlet - the place where Sherlock Holmes begins. It is here that Sherlock meets Watson, where the reader is introduced to Holmes's unorthodox methods of detection. Thirty-seven artists and authors take on this classic text with some surprising results.
Maine Haunted Love
ISBN-13: 978-1-329-69373-9
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Maine Me Haunted Love is a collection of poetry, art, and short stories featuring work from: Amber E. Box, James Graham, Jaclyn Wilson, Jonathan Dubey, E.J. Shumak, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, Meghan Smith, James Rand, Sybil Fogg, M.F. Whalen,George M. Galvin, Craig Steven, Justine Johnston Hemmestad, Sergio ‘ente per ente' Palumbo, JohnGrey, S.J. Galvin, and William Doreski.
Black Candy: A Halloween Anthology of Horror
ISBN-13: 978-1945987144
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​A team of authors came forward and put together one of the most astounding anthologies to be noted in the horror indie community. Ghosts, witches, skeletons, and voodoo. All instant classics of the Halloween season. And like a great night of trick-or-treating, Black Candy has a bag full of all manner of tales to put you in the Samhain spirit. Blood, guts, and glory all come together as the authors weave their individual tales together forming a platonic mask of death, fear, and sadism. Whether you love vengeful spirits, risen to wreak havoc on the world of the living, or witches with a taste for terror, Jaded Books Publishing brings them all to you in one terrifying tome of the mad and the macabre. Get your copy today just in time for Halloween Screams!